Angharad ferch Llywelyn (
fl.
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1260) was a daughter of
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (, – 11 April 1240), also known as Llywelyn the Great (, ; ), was a medieval Welsh ruler. He succeeded his uncle, Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, as King of Gwynedd in 1195. By a combination of war and diplomacy, he dominate ...
,
Prince of Wales
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.
The identity of her mother is uncertain; but several later genealogical sources, including ''Pedigrees of Some Of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Volume III'', compiled by J. Orton Buck and Timothy Field Beard, give Llywelyn's consort
Joan, daughter of King John of England, as her mother.
Angharad is almost absent from contemporary records; however, she is mentioned in a document dated 1260, the year of her death and in sources recorded as married to Maelgwn Fychan.
She married Maelgwn Fychan of
Deheubarth
Deheubarth (; , thus 'the South') was a regional name for the Welsh kingdoms, realms of south Wales, particularly as opposed to kingdom of Gwynedd, Gwynedd (Latin: ''Venedotia''). It is now used as a shorthand for the various realms united under ...
, a descendant of the
Lord Rhys, and had four children:
# Rhys (?–1255) – betrothed to Isabel Marshal, the illegitimate daughter of
Gilbert Marshal, Earl of Pembroke.
# Gwenllian (?–1254) – married
Maredudd ap Llywelyn of Meirionydd, son of
Llywelyn the Elder ap Maredudd ap Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd (sometimes called "Llywelyn Fawr").
# Marered (? – 28 September 1255) – married Owain ap Maredudd of
Cydewain.
# Eleaonor of Ceredigion – married Maredudd ap Owain of Deheubarth, son of Owain ap Gruffydd.
Marared's daughter Angharad married Eleaonor's son Owain. Llywelyn, the son of this union, supposedly married Eleanor of Bar, an alleged daughter of
Eleanor of England (
King Edward I
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's daughter) and
Henry the Count of Bar.
[Kenneth Panton, ''Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy'', (Scarecrow Press, 2011), 173.] The son of Llywelyn was Thomas (or ''Tomos'') ap Llywelyn, among whose children were the sisters Ellen and Margaret; Ellen was the mother of
Owain Glyndŵr
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, while Margaret married
Tudur ap Goronwy
Tudur ap Goronwy (c. 1310 - c. 1367) was a Welsh landowner, soldier and administrator of the Tudors of Penmynydd family from the island of Anglesey.
Origins
Born about 1310, he was one of the two sons of Goronwy ap Tudur Hen and his wife ...
, from whom the
House of Tudor
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descend (Margaret thus being the great-great-grandmother of
King Henry VII).
References
Sources
* Huw Pryce (ed.), ''Acts of Welsh Rulers 1120–1283'' (Cardiff, 2005), p. 202.
* ''Visitation of Shropshire 1623'' by R Tresswell Somerset Herald with other sources of years 1569 & 1584
* Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, ''Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700'' (2008).
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